Last updated 9/12/2007
Learning Web Design - 3RD Edition
Learning Web Design - 3RD Edition<
Author: Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Publisher: O'Reilly
465 pages ... $44.99
ISBN-13: 97:8-0-596-52752-5
A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, Style Sheets, and Web Graphics
Learning Web Design, 3rd Edition
is pleasure to read, it is really well written. It begins with how to start, how the Web works, and the nature of Web design and she makes it interesting.
The second part of the book is on HTML markup and standards based structure. Here you learn how to start with your content, to give it a logical structure, to add your text, links, images, to use tables and forms, and to understand today's and tomorrow's standards.
The third part of Learning Web Design
is about CSS for presentation. You learn how you can develop your own unique and beautiful web sites, and how to change them easily just by modifying your CSS styles.
Creating Web graphics and optimizing them for the Web fills the fourth part of the book, and the shorter fifth part is about the site development process and getting your pages on the web.
There are exercises throughout the book that you can do to test and solidify your learning. There is a Web support page with material you can use for some of the exercises.
When you are done with your studies, or even before that, this book is a good reference where you can easily find the information you need for most of the tasks you want to do or problems you may have.
Jennifer Robins writes reading this book feels like sitting in my classroom.
It must be a very nice classroom.
I used the second edition of this book for working on our NVMUG site and converting it to standards base CSS. This third edition of Learning Web Design
is almost totally new and so much improved that I have ordered a copy for myself.
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